Power Platform Dev Weekly #156

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Anwesha Sharma

Mar 15, 2023

Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!

Another week, another host of features. It does feel like this week is AI week, with several announcements from big blue and lots of content from our community. All hail our new overlords.

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🥇 Cover Story

Power Platform | Makers & Environment Variables | The Power Platform Talks
by Carsten Groth
Carsten does a deep dive into using environment variables and how they apply to makers as much as developers

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Demystifying dual-write
by Carina Claesson
A great article by Carina delving into the technical around dual-write.

How to Make a Power Apps Custom Page
by Matthew Devaney
This excellent, full tutorial, bridges the gap between MDA & Canvas, enabling so many scenarios.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Create new Dataverse choice from canvas apps
by Ahmed Salih
Using Microsoft Power Automate, PowerApps (Canvas) End-users can create new Dataverse choices to be added to the choices table in Dataverse.

How to connect Power Apps Card to Dataverse & debug them
by Inogic
Detailed run through on developing the new cards feature and how to debug your code.

😎 Power Automate

Managing High Volumes of Flow Runs with Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
Pieter shows off his Canvas App to monitor multiple environments and the flow runs.

Flow Run History & Cancelling Flows via XrmToolBox
by Carl Cookson
Our very own editor shows off his new edition to the Flow to Visio by allowing a flow run history to be displayed and the ability to cancel thousands of Flow Runs easily.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Creating a custom list entity view in Power Pages using HTML, FetchXML and Liquid
by Lewis Baybutt
In this post on Power Pages, we'll take a look at how to produce a list entity on a page that filters based on some FetchXML.

Power Platform Pipelines – the Admin view | The Power Platform Talks
by Carsten Groth
After a first review of the end-user experience in his previous article, Carsten took a closer look at Power Platform Pipelines from the admin perspective.